I once asked my hemotologist when he explained to me I have factor V Leiden "but what about the protein C independent function of protein S?" he didn't know....... It was the subject of the promotion of a friend of mine and my hematologist was one of his promotors.

Oh! Trigemino-something! I have a little dental appliance I wear at night called a Nociceptive Trigeminal Inhibition Tension Suppression System, or NTI-TSS. It's meant to help prevent migraines. It kind of works (shrug). But it's fun to tell people what NTI-TSS stands for, even if I have no idea what the name means (something about clenching, apparently).

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